Fire in the Blood

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A shocking documentary on the way Western pharmaceutical companies blocked access to low-cost anti-Aids drugs in Africa

Fire in the Blood provides shocking documentary evidence of the way big
Western pharmaceutical companies blocked access to low-cost anti-Aids drugs
in Africa, causing 10 million deaths. The film, directed by Dylan Mohan
Gray, focuses on the tiny group of activists in Africa and America who
fought unceasingly to have their views heard. The footage of dying patients
is coupled with the positive stories of activists such as Zackie Achmat, a
middle-class South African who refused to take anti-virals himself until
they were available to everyone. Another hero is Yusuf Hamied, an Indian
pharmaceuticals manufacturer who made the drugs cheap